Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
HENRY FIELDINGWe must eat to live, and not live to eat.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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